A jury determined to award $13.1 million to the family of a Hispanic man who died from gunshot wounds inflicted by authorities after stabbing an officer with a screwdriver in Riverside County.

Authorities They said the incident occurred on August 7, 2020, when Jeffrey Alexander Monroy was walking in the Tamarisk Lane area of ??Rancho Mirage. According to the lawyers representing Monroy's family, the 33-year-old Hispanic man, who worked for his father's pool service, was looking for a phone to call his brother and ask him to take him home.